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The competent authorities and the organic control authorities shall: have procedures and/or arrangements in place to ensure the effectiveness and appropriateness of official controls and other official activities; have procedures and/or arrangements in place to ensure the impartiality, quality and consistency of official controls and other official activities at all levels; have procedures and/or arrangements in place to ensure that staff performing official controls and other official activities are free from any conflict of interest; have, or have access to, an adequate laboratory capacity for analysis, testing and diagnosis; have, or have access to, a sufficient number of suitably qualified and experienced staff so that official controls and other official activities can be performed efficiently and effectively; have appropriate and properly maintained facilities and equipment to ensure that staff can perform official controls and other official activities efficiently and effectively; have the legal powers to perform official controls and other official activities and to take the action provided for in this Regulation and in the rules referred to in Article 1(2); have legal procedures in place in order to ensure that staff have access to the premises of, and documents kept by, operators so as to be able to accomplish their tasks properly; have contingency plans in place, and be prepared to operate such plans in the event of an emergency, where appropriate, in accordance with the rules referred to in Article 1(2).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.